ABOUT THE MONARCHS: 6-5 Overall/0-1 CAA
/4-3 Home/1-0 Nuetral/1-2 Away
Last Game
* Lost at UNLV, 84-76 on Sunday.
* John Waller career high 20 pts...
* Clay McGowen (7 rebs)/ Ricardo Marsh 15 pts
* ODU led 71-65 with 4:02 left
* Monarchs have lost three straight.

HEAD COACH: Blaine Taylor (Montana '81)
* Top Assistant at Stanford the last three years
* 142-65 at Montana (1991-1998) - five 20+ win seasons.
* 384-156 in 18 years as an assistant and head coach
* 1992 Montana team was 27-4
* 1992 National Rookie Coach of the Year
* 1992 Big Sky Coach of the Year

THIS DAY IN MONARCH HISTORY
1974, All-American Joel Copeland poured in 39 points and Jay Roundtree added 19 rebounds as the then Div.II Monarchs defeated Delaware, 92-80.

TONIGHT'S OFFICIALS
Mike Wood, Karl Hess, Ed Corbett.

CAA GAMES TODAY:
VCU at Drexel, W&M at George Mason, James Madison at Delaware.

DREWRY JOINS MONARCHS
Junior guard Marcus Drewry made his first appearance with the Monarchs at UNLV.
The 6-2 guard from Marshalltown C.C. played 11 minutes with two assists. He missed
the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair an unhealed stress
fracture in his right foot. While Drewry played high school basketball in Evanston, IL.
He was born in nearby Portsmouth, Va.

JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER??? Drewry's Mother, Karen Drewry was a Virginia High
School League All-Star. She once scored 68 points in a game. In 1988, she helped lead
Hampton University to the NCAA Div. II National Championship and is HU's fourth
all-time assist leader with 352.

SERIES VS. HOFSTRA:
ODU leads, 1-0. The two teams met in 1993-94 in the second finals of the UC
Santa Barbara Tournament. ODU won, 92-66.

WRIGHT AND MARSH
Rasheed Wright and Ricardo Marsh are the only two Monarchs who have started all
11 games...Marsh has 615 career points thus far.

CLAY MCGOWEN:
The 6-11 sophmore who played only 57 minutes last year has grabbed seven or more
rebounds in four of his last five games, and five times thus far this season. He blocked
five shots against Memphis.

TROY NANCE CAA PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Troy Nance was named CAA Player of the Week on Dec. 17. He scored a career high
18 points (14 in the second half) with 7 assists and four steals in the Monarchs 81-67
victory over Coastal Carolina.

GAME TIME CHANGE:
*The ODU-W&M game on Jan. 26 originally scheduled for 12 noon has been moved
7 p.m. and will be televised on Comcast Sportsnet..

GREENE PRE-SEASON ALL -CAA: Senior guard Pierre Greene was selected to the
CAA pre-season men's basketball All-CAA team by the league's head coaches and
media in attendance at media day on Oct. 31 in Baltimore, MD. As a team, the Monarchs were picked to finish seventh.

MONARCH INJURIES:
Freshman T. J. Waldon (Lakeland, Fl.) is recovering from a stress fracture of
the third metatarsal bone in his left foot... OTHER NOTES: Freshman Alan Treese (Delaware, OH.) is the only Monarch who has not played in a game this year.

WALK-ON'S:
The Monarchs have two walk-ons in sophomore Andreas Themistocleous (Nicosia,
Cyprus) and junior Samir Hickson (Collegeville, Pa.). Themistocoleous appeared in
15 games last year, including a career high seven points against Taylor's Stanford
squad in the Puerto Rico Shootout.

MONARCHS IN THE FIELDHOUSE: 110-15
Last year, ODU was 6-1
UNCW has beaten ODU three times

BEST YEAR BY YEAR RECORDS IN THE FIELDHOUSE
14-0 in 1974-75 (Div. II National Champions)
11-0 in 1976-77 (First Div. I team/ NIT)
13-1 in 1975-76 (Div. II Final Four)
13-1 in 1973-74 (Div. II Regional Finals)
12-2 in 1970-71 (Div. II Championship Game)

GLOBAL SPECTRUM TO MANAGE CONSTANT CENTER
Old Dominion University has selected the Philadelphia based firm Global Spectrum
to manage the 8,600 seat Constant Convocation Center, which is slated to open in late fall of 2002. The highly regarded company provides management for public assembly
facilities across the country, most notably the First Union Center, which is home to the
NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, as well as facilities at Temple, South Carolina and Rhode
Island.

CENTER CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:
* General Contractor, S.B. Ballard is ahead of schedule
* Building will be weather tight by March of 2002 to allow for installation of
interior finishes and equipment.
* The design for a new Athletic Hall of Fame, to be located in the main lobby of
the building is well underway.

DEFENSE
All 11 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor.
Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, the lowest since ODU held American
to .259 shooting in 1996. The Hokies scored 19 points in the first half, the lowest since VMI was held to11 in 1982. ECU shot .333

BLAINE TAYLOR'S RADIO CALL IN SHOW
Every Thursday afternoon from 5-6 p.m. on ESPN 1310 radio with
host John Castleberry. Note this week the show will be on Friday from
5-6... Fans can also e-mail questions to Taylor at www.odusports.com

MONARCH ASSISTANTS
Kenny Gattison (ODU'86) Sun Belt Conference All-Decade Team and
League Player of the Year in 1986.
Larry Krystkowiak (Montana '86) Three-Time Big Sky Player of the Year and
Academic All-American.
*Both played nine years in the NBA.

THE NEW CAA (COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION)
* The CAA is now comprised of ten teams
* The four new schools are Delaware, Hofstra (Long Island, NY.),
Towson (Baltimore, Md. Area), and Drexel (Philadelphia)
* Also in the league are: Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth, James Madison,
UNC Wilmington, William & Mary, and George Mason.

CAA TELECONFERENCE CALL
Begins Tuesday Jan. 8. Blaine Taylor is on at 10:30...Call 888-935-0164..Members
of the media should contact Tripp Sheppard at the CAA office for the password
to access the call.

CURRENT ALUMNI MONARCHS IN NBA
Mark West ('83) Assistant General Manager with Phoenix Suns
(Played 17 years in the NBA)
Cal Bowdler ('99) In third season with Atlanta Hawks
Current Avg:4.3 ppg/ 2.7 rpg (14 pts at Phila./ 6 rebs vs. MIL.)
Chris Gatling ('91) Now with the Miami Heat.
(NBA All-Star in 1997) current avg:8.7 ppg/ 4.0 rpg
NOTE: Skipper Youngblood ('2000) is playing for Roanoke in the NBA
Developmental league